2 years and counting...

Well I have officially been employed with International Paper for 2 years 27 days 8 hours and 22 minutes at the moment this BLOG was started and it feels good. I love my job and alot of the people that work here. It gets tougher every day more things to do, look for and know but all in all I feel like I am growing. A greater respect for my parents and really everyone who has worked day in and day out for 20 or 30+ years. At least you keep getting more vacation to offset the crazies.

Well, wedding season is upon us and for those of you that don't know my wife is a wedding coordinator which means I don't really get to see her any from her birthday until the end of July for more than a couple hours daily. We are right in the middle of a travel wedding stretch where she will spend Thursday to Sunday in another town, ouch. But she enjoys her job as well so as long as IP and Jill keep sending us paychecks we don't have much to complain about. Also this season brings a sadness to every other Monday night. We are no longer having our Bible study weekly and doing more of an alternating weekly Monday social night. We had a blast last Monday where yours truly ran the table defeating many men. I took down Pit with an Iron fist and a bell and Alex, Craig and I downed the other half of the men in a rousing game of scene it. And the people rejoiced... yeah.

This summer is taking off in force and hopefully I will be able to catch back up on my blogging soon and keep more of a once a week thing. Until next time here are the book reviews from the ones I have finished since my last entry:

Children of Hurin - 5 out of 5 - Newest and supposedly last post-humus Tolkien book is an expanded story from the Silmarillion and it follows that style. Less Hobbit more historical but still very good.

Rant - 3.5 out 5 - Palahniuk's newest novel was a quick read set as an oral biography the story reads like an E true Hollywood story where the author lays down the story using quotes. Interesting but like alot of Chuck's work you leave the book wondering what the real point of the story was and where this or that story line in the book really turned out.

The World is Flat - 6 out of 7 - I affected the rating system on this book since I have been reading it for months as I finished others at just under 700 pages its a serious undertaking but by far one of the better "state of the world" books I have ever read. Friedman is obsessed with technology and how it is shaping the world and making it more "flat". This book is a useless trivia nerds dream. If I talked to anyone while I was reading this book they got at least one story or fact from it even if they didn't know it was from this book.